(In reply to Martin Wilck from comment #12) > Should we check "$container", maybe? Don't think so :-) > I suppose there are some other > exceptions where it doesn't hurt to fail building the initrd (like Kiwi), > but in all other situations, a warning would be in order. There is no error nor warning if suse-module-tools is not installed either: https://github.com/openSUSE/rpm-config-SUSE/blob/master/macros.d/macros.initrd I suppose also for specially tailored systems a kernel without initrd could be perfectly fine. So I just wouldn't print anything really.